Apprehension Quote by Robert Hewison

“Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him--and intelligent Russian--the inexplicable importance attached to it by…

— Leo Tolstoy

“For all their simplicity, humans could be remarkably perceptive, though they didn't know it most of the time, and their ability to thrust straight…

— Sean DeLauder

“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of parables whereby…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“It would be very peculiar if a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think…

— Hans Eysenck

“He had decided long ago that no Situation had any objective reality: it only existed in the minds of those who happened to be…

— Thomas Pynchon

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

— Stefan Zweig

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman

“But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her…

— Jane Austen

Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“Like most people who knew themselves to be naturally favored with intelligence, his natural ego had led him unconsciously to doubt that there was…

— Gordon R. Dickson

“There was, quite simply, no way that my experiences, with their intensely sophisticated visual and aural levels, and their high degree of perceived meaning,…

— Eben Alexander

“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -…

— Kim White